CDNs provide premium delivery already (Score 1)

"think it's obvious that musicians (especially independents and small labels) will find themselves with the short end of the stick if they are asked to pay a fee to have their music streamed as fast as larger bands or even corporations." -well, the free market economy already allows this to be true, really. Content Delivery Networks like http://www.akamai.com/ provide a much higher quality of service over the public internet than just sticking it out there on a random webserver. Akamai actually powers iTunes and most big media content with big dollars behind it already. So I agree that the net itself should be free and open, but private enterprise has already created solutions to offer premium delivery for those that can afford it and have a real need.